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Are You at Your Best?
Do you strive to get better at what you do? Whether it’s fixing cars, selling shoes or programming computers? Or are you already at your best? Getting better at something you care deeply about is called personal mastery. Peter Senge in his book, The Fifth Discipline says,” Personal mastery goes beyond competence and skills, though it is grounded in competence and skills…
September 30, 2010
Fear, What is it Good For?
What Are You Afraid Of? I spend very little time being afraid. It’s not a good or bad thing, just the way I’m wired. I’m not afraid of being hurt or dying. Not afraid of heights, crowds, spiders, water or anything else I can think of in the physical world. I used to have a fear of success and a fear of being alone. The former I got rid of in my mid 20’s, the later in the last few years.
At least I thought I’d gotten rid of my fear of success.
September 23, 2010
Power to the People!
How do we create a tipping point for interest in Motivation 3.0? What if we could create an open source project of people willing to teach and help each other about how we can have meaningful, fulfilling, fun and nurturing work lives that resulted in companies that were more profitable and sustainable? What would that look like? How would it work? Has this problem been solved in another field?
September 17, 2010
Unarticulated Needs
Filling needs that people don’t know they have is hard. Earlier this week I read a blog post that Seth Godin wrote about: Marketing to the bottom of the pyramid. It got me thinking, that that’s what I’m trying to do, fulfill unarticulated needs. Needs that most folks don’t know they have. The average person doesn’t know that they could have a work life that lifts them up and makes them feel great. For that last 100 years we’ve been programmed to believe that work is a necessary evil, that we need to give up 40-60 hour of our week to purgatory, that being happy, fulfilled and engaged at work is more of a fairy tale than a reality.
September 14, 2010
Back to Reality Camp
I don’t do things halfway and seldom check to see how deep the water is before diving in. I’ve been going to Burning Man since 2002, when a friend told me about it during a camping trip in Death Valley. I’ve been volunteering for Burning Man year round since 2002. My entire life, with the exception of my work life, has revolved around burning man. I’ve not missed a burn since I started going. Those are my people; it’s the first time in my life that I felt like I fit in. Being involved so deeply has served me well.
September 10, 2010
Hacking at the Branches of Evil
Larry Lessig takes on campaign funding and congress. According to Lessig, excessive campaign dollars are the problem behind most of our nation’s woes. Everything from childhood obesity, to global warming, environmental disasters and our recent financial meltdown can be blamed on special interest group’s spending money to influence law makers.
August 5, 2010